The Dialogue between Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and “The Lady from the Sea”
“A Doll’s house”and “The Lady from the Sea” are among Ibsen’s finest works, but the second one is less known, and rarely performed. Although these two plays by Ibsen have many similarities, they could be comprehended in various ways. Ellida Wangel, the main character of The Lady from the Sea is trapped inside a marriage, but she is very different from Nora from Doll House, who preceded her by about ten years. I think when Ibsen came up with the idea of writing “the Lady from the sea”, he thought about solving the problems in “A Doll’s House”. After the tragic divorce in “A Doll’s House”, the ending of Lady from the See seems comparatively comic to me.
One may find the hidden conversation between those two plays. They have similarities:the location of each play is Norway and the main issue is women’s lack of opportunities for self-realization and enormous obligations of duty.
I see those characters from each of the plays talking to each other, for example Nora and Ellida could have shared their family problems and their secrets. Both of them had secrets, Nora did not tell her husband that she borrowed money from Krogstad. And some years earlier Ellida was deeply in love and engaged to a sailor. Those two aspects of the plays lead to the main problems in both of them. I guess Ellida would suggest Nora to betray her secrets in order to maintain the healthy relations with her husband. It seem that Nora is more likely scared, because her husband might be angry while Ellida somehow shares her worries to her husband, Doctor Wangel but at the same time devotes herself to him.
Doctor Wangel seems to be more passionate and beloved than Torvald, the husband of Nora. Because when Ellida had told Wangelthat he had “bought” her: he had been shocked and hurt, but could not deny the justice of the accusation. But Torvald still could not realize his guilt and superficial attitude towards the family at the end of the play and tries to maintain the frame, in which he has been
One may find the hidden conversation between those two plays. They have similarities:the location of each play is Norway and the main issue is women’s lack of opportunities for self-realization and enormous obligations of duty.
I see those characters from each of the plays talking to each other, for example Nora and Ellida could have shared their family problems and their secrets. Both of them had secrets, Nora did not tell her husband that she borrowed money from Krogstad. And some years earlier Ellida was deeply in love and engaged to a sailor. Those two aspects of the plays lead to the main problems in both of them. I guess Ellida would suggest Nora to betray her secrets in order to maintain the healthy relations with her husband. It seem that Nora is more likely scared, because her husband might be angry while Ellida somehow shares her worries to her husband, Doctor Wangel but at the same time devotes herself to him.
Doctor Wangel seems to be more passionate and beloved than Torvald, the husband of Nora. Because when Ellida had told Wangelthat he had “bought” her: he had been shocked and hurt, but could not deny the justice of the accusation. But Torvald still could not realize his guilt and superficial attitude towards the family at the end of the play and tries to maintain the frame, in which he has been